Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

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Annie Proulx. Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

Fine Just the Way It Is

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Family Man

I’ve Always Loved This Place

Them Old Cowboy Songs

ARCHIE & ROSE, 1885

ARCHIE & SINK

ROSE & THE COYOTES

The Sagebrush Kid. For George Jones

The Great Divide. 1920

1932

1940

Deep-Blood-Greasy-Bowl

Swamp Mischief

Testimony of the Donkey

Tits-Up in a Ditch

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ANNIE PROULX

FOURTH ESTATE • London

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Berenice Pann’s boyfriend, Chad Grills, was the great-grandson of the old Bledsoes. They were still on the ranch where Ray Forkenbrock had worked in his early days, both of them over the century mark. Berenice became an avid eavesdropper, feeling that in a way she was related to Mr. Forkenbrock through the Bledsoes. She owed it to herself and Chad to hear as much as she could about the Bledsoes, good or bad. Inside the room there was silence, then the door flung open.

“Uh!” cried Berenice, the cupcake sliding on its saucer. “I was just bringing you this—”

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